We are the UK Charity for Paediatric Feeding Disorders (PFD), empowering families and communities through advocacy, specialist treatment, training, education and research.
What we do
Helping children and young people with Paediatric Feeding Disorders (PFD) to develop a lifelong, healthy relationship with food since 2019.
We make mealtimes, good times by providing life changing feeding therapy and empowering families and communities through advocacy, training, education and research.
Across the world, on average, about 25% of children will struggle with feeding at some point during the first 10 years of life. Studies show that about 10% of children will go on to experience significant challenges with feeding. This figure rises for children with medical, developmental or learning differences. For these children every bite of food can be painful, scary or impossible, potentially impeding nutrition, development, growth and overall wellbeing.
PFD is characterised by the skills and difficulties related to feeding and eating, including problems with sucking, swallowing, chewing, or self-feeding.
The diagnosis takes into account the functional impact of these difficulties for the child (their overall development, growth, and participation in daily activities) and the family (the social and environmental consequences).